Combination tire-holder license and lamp bracket.



RL'C: AGNER. COMBINATION TIRE-HOLDER LICENSE AND LAMP BRACKET.

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I Patented July 23, 1918.

fl W Inventor,

V V o Attorneys.

\ [RAYMOND c. AGNEEUOF BURLINGTON, Wisconsin. 1

COMBINATION TIRE HQLDER LICENSE AND LAMP BRACKET. 1

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Application filed January 1c, 1917. Serial in. 141,645.

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' a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Racine and State of WVisconsin, have invented anew I and useful, Combination Tire-Holder Lithrough the rear I showing parts of the cense and Lamp Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a lamp holder for an automobile, and one object of the invention is to provide a lamp holder which may be held. in place by the clips which, are used to attach the rear spring to the body suport.

Another object of the invention is so to position the lamp holder and so, to construct the same that it will prevent the clips from moving longitudinally of the spring. Another object of the invention is so to construct the holder that parts thereof will act as plates through which the clips above mentioned pass.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the resent invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the descriptionproceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what claimed, parting from the spirit of the invention. In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in rear elevation, a portion of a motor-propelled vehicle to which the device forming the subject matter of this application has been attached;

Fig.2 is a perspective showing the tire support; I

Fig. 3 is a perspective showing an arm which cooperates with the tire support;

Fi 4 is a section taken longitudinally the device formo" the vehicle, and showin this application ing the subject matter 0 in elevation Fig. 5 1s a transverse section taken device torming the subject matter of this application in the positions. which they will assume with rewithout deportion of the vehicle and.

Spec? to the P 'i gand' the support whi h carries the Vehicl body? The numeral 1 indicates the rear axle of a motor-propelled, semenwith which a rear spring 2 is assembled. The spring.

2 is of upwardly arched form and carries a support 3 which upholds the vehicle'body. Clips 111 the form of U-bo'lts, and denoted bythe numeral 4, are used to connect the sup.

port 3 with the spring 2[ The construe:

tion above outlined is a common one in ve formed, the same having openings 9. The

body 6 of the tire carrier 5' is curved trans-, versely, to cooperate with the under. edge of the spring 2. (See Fig. 5.) The body 6 of the tire carrier- 5 is depressed as shown at 10. to form shoulders, and to fashionside meni-v bers 11 which are prolonged as shown at 12 onto the extension 7 Along their longitudinal edges, the side members 11 are provided with depending reinforcing 'fianges 14 extended as shown at 15 onto the parts '12.

The side members 11 are provided# with openings 16 through which the U-bolts or clips 4 pass. The body 6 is provided with acentral opening 17 adapted to receive the bolt (not shown) which, as is common connects the constituent parts of the spring 2.

The numeral 18 denotes a pair of arms having angular extensions 19 terminating in flattened heads 20 having openings 21. The heads 20 of the arms 18 lie between the side members 11 and the spring 2. The arms of the U-bolts &' pass through the openings 21, the same being alined with the openings 16 of the tire carrier 5. Nuts 22 are threaded onto the lower ends of the U-bolts 4 and bear against the lower faces of the side members 11 of the tire carrier 5. One or both of the arms 18 may be equipped with projections 23 of any desired sort, adapted to receive a lamp (not shown). The arms 18 have rear wardly extended fingers 24: provided with openings 25. Openings 26 are formed in the upper ends of the arms 18. One or more tires 27 are mounted in the seats 8 and are held in place by straps 30 engaged in some or all of the openings 9. .The tires pass above the fingers 24, and are held in place [by straps or the like, shown at 31, and en- U-bolts 4, found on a machine of this kind are used for holding the tire carrier 5 in place. The heads 20 of the arms 18 act as retainers, through which the arms of the U- bolts; pass, the heads 20.1'eplacing the ordinary clip plates.

One diiiiculty in machines embodying the spring construction. shown in F ig. 5, has arisen out of the fact that 'the clips 4 are prone to shift their positions longitudinally of the spring 2, notably if the driver habitually rides at one side of the vehicle. As a consequence, the vehicle body soon becomes lop-sided wlth respect to the running gear. In the present embodiment of'the invention, the U-bolts or clips 4. cannot shift their positions longitudinally of the spring, because these clips or U-bolts are held apart by the parts 6 and 11 of the tire carrier 5, through which the clips pass. 'Owing to the offsetting of the tire carrier 5, shown at 11, the

heads 20 of the arms 18 may be mounted as It is to shown in 5, andmav be made to replace .the ordinary clipplates used in connection with the U-bolts 4.

The part 5 serves, either mediately or immediately to support the tire 27, to support a license tag, an'd to support a lamp. In claiming the invention, the part 5 will be referred to as an article holder, to. avoid unnecessary limitations arising'out of a specific enumeration of the particular 'oolect which 15 earned or supported by the part5.

.Having thus described 'the invention, what.

is claimed is The combination with the rear spring of and housed between the said members andy the spring, and securing devices uniting the body support, the forward-ends of the arms and the said members.

In testimony that I claim' the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my-signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RAYMOND o. AGMJR.

.Witnesses: G. H. BEAUMONT, HUGH AGNER. 

